Chapter 18

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After Chen Mengtian finished speaking, she even put on an expression as if she had seen through all the lives and deaths in the world.

With a profound gaze, she stared at the furnace nearby as if she had seen through all worldly affairs.

Of course, Chen Mengtian believed that she was putting on such an expression.

Meanwhile, Jiang Zebei felt that there was something really off with Chen Mengtian when she behaved this way, because the girl in front of him was behaving exactly the same as the lunatic who often sat on the rock at the entrance of the village.

There was a lunatic in Chen Village who had arrived two years ago.

The lunatic originally looked pretty normal, because she behaved no differently from a normal person.

However, the moment she spoke, they could tell that she was mad and a fool.

All she talked about was the king of hell and ghosts, and she jumped around in the village like she was performing in a theater.

But the moment the lunatic calmed down, those who were ignorant of her condition would definitely think that she was normal.

She would put on a desolate look, just like the girl in front of him right now.

It was a bizarre expression that made it seem like she had seen through all worldly affairs.

Jiang Zebei compared the two of them, and his lips twitched. He decided not to say anything about it.

This was abnormal. Too abnormal.

He did not know how long Chen Mengtian would continue acting insane before she became normal again.

Then, he shook his head lightly and thought that it would be best that she did not act normal.

This was pretty good. If she acted this way, she would no longer be as hateful and annoying as before. When she behaved like a lunatic, he actually felt at ease.

Chen Mengtian did not know what Jiang Zebei was thinking. She believed that he was persuaded by her act, so she continued eating with him.

They seldom ate together over the past half a year, and it was even rarer for them to quietly like this without arguing and flinging stinging words at each other.

After they finished eating, Chen Mengtian took the initiative to clean the table and wash the dishes.

Jiang Zebei had been in charge of making the fire, cooking the food, and serving the dishes, so she had to be in charge of cleaning the table. If they divided work clearly, they could avoid conflict.

Jiang Zebei watched as she worked. The girl could no longer be compared to who she was in the past.

He left and went to the storeroom in the courtyard.

He was already late in leaving for the hunt today. Even if he was not going deep into the mountains, he had to bring tools.

He picked a bow, some arrows, rope, the wooden stick he trained with every day, and other items.

Just when Jiang Zebei got all the items he needed to enter the mountains and wanted to leave, he saw the longspear in the storeroom.

It was his father’s silver spear, whose speartip was incredibly sharp.

While his father was alive, he often taught him how to use the spear, and he looked forward to it all the time, because he could feel his blood rushing whenever the silver spear danced.

But ever since his father passed away, he had not touched that silver spear again. Whenever he trained, he used the wooden stick as a replacement.

Jiang Zebei placed the tools he used to hunt in the mountains on the floor and headed to the sharp and domineering silver spear.

He grabbed a linen cloth by the side on the way and covered the spear with it once he got close to it.

Since he had decided to become a civil servant, he decided not to touch the silver spear again.

The current emperor of Cold West was incompetent and unjust. Corrupt officials were also in power. But Jiang Zebei wanted to become a civil servant so that he could serve his flawed country.

After Jiang Zebei covered the silver spear, sadness filled his eyes.

Compared to being a civil servant, he actually preferred being a military official. Unfortunately, it was simply too difficult to become a military official in Cold West, especially for people with no status and background, like him. Even if he worked for ten or twenty years, he might not even become a captain.

Since the corrupt officials were in power, the father-in-law of the emperor was governing the country. He also controlled the military.

After Jiang Zebei covered the silver spear, he no longer expressed his sadness. He turned around to leave the storeroom, but before he left, he grabbed the tools he needed to hunt in the mountains.